Glimpses of the Left..

Ihis in a modern that the words were
"demonic mantras power" that awakened primeval magical
knowledge (atavisms), the of desire, in the sorcerer's mind.
Akht himself called
lIymbolism of the Yatukan is
in the
Im d member of Yatus-coven of nomadic demons and sorcerers who
wandered around Persia sorcery", as as the
"Illbodiment of demonic powers Ahriman, his avatar (in regard
10 the nature and the goal of Yatukan initiation). He was the first
III succeed in the consciousness from lithe order" (self-
d" ification) through the dark alchemical transmutation.
Ahriman, Yatuk Dinoih, and Left Hand Path
Ahriman, or Mainyu, in Zoroastrian mythology and is
Ihe of of what in the Western is referred
to as the Prince of Darkness or the devil - embodiment of the ultimate eviL
The Greeks and the Romans knew him as and Herodotus
mmpared him to the Greek Kakodaimonos, meaning: evil spirit. The name
"Ahriman" itself means II devilish , or simply II devil". He is the
creator and the lord of Daevas - evil spirits, one of the most ancient
of the Western example of which is Aeshma
Daeva, the of hatred and fury, who in the lore became
Asmodeus). But the II evil nature" of Ahriman results from the patriarchal
perception and the view by the solar and the state
Iluthorities. In he is like many other dark deities such as the Arabic
Iblis, the the Sathan (Lucifer), or the Slavic '-�'''u,'v
lIe the primordial darkness chaos that all creation.
I n the act of creation chaos rise not only to but to the whole
structured universe. In many ancient mythologies act is
depicted as a defeat of a primeval monster, the symbol of original chaos,
pn�sent€�d as a Ahriman is a typical example
of such a primordial monster. One his most common forms was that of a
black dragon (also a wolf, a toad, or a serpent) and like other similar
deities, he was the of death and the of sorcerers and witches.
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